Wireless injection of passwords
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo, John R. Feezell
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Abstract
The disclosure is directed to wirelessly injecting passwords from a password vault application on a mobile device into a computing device. A method according to embodiments includes: sending a password using a wireless protocol from a mobile computing device to a universal serial bus human interface device (USB HID device) coupled with a computing device; receiving the password at the USB HID device; and injecting, by the USB HID device, the password as a series of keystrokes into a password field on the computing device.
Claims20
A method for wirelessly injecting passwords, comprising:
- sending a password using a wireless protocol from a mobile computing device to a universal serial bus human interface device (USB HID) coupled with a computing device, wherein the USB HID comprises a USB drive, and wherein the USB drive includes an HID module for emulating a keyboard such that the USB drive appears as a USB keyboard to the computer system;
- receiving the password at the USB drive;
- and
- injecting, by the USB drive, the password as a series of keystrokes into a password field on the computing device.
A computerized system for wirelessly injecting passwords by performing a method, the method comprising:
- sending a password using a wireless protocol from a mobile computing device to a universal serial bus human interface device (USB HID) coupled with a computing device, wherein the USB HID comprises a USB drive, and wherein the USB drive includes an HID module for emulating a keyboard such that the USB drive appears as a USB keyboard to the computer system;
- receiving the password at the USB drive;
- and
- injecting, by the USB drive, the password as a series of keystrokes into a password field on the computing device.
A computer program product stored on a computer readable storage medium, which when executed by a computer system, performs a method for wirelessly injecting passwords, the method comprising:
- sending a password using a wireless protocol from a mobile computing device to a universal serial bus human interface device (USB HID) coupled with a computing device, wherein the USB HID comprises a USB drive, and wherein the USB drive includes an HID module for emulating a keyboard such that the USB drive appears as a USB keyboard to the computer system;
- receiving the password at the USB drive;
- and
- injecting, by the drive, the password as a series of keystrokes into a password field on the computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.